[Bug 218342] Review Request: tibetan-machine-uni-fonts - Tibetan Machine Uni font for Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi

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Summary: Review Request: tibetan-machine-uni-fonts - Tibetan Machine Uni font for Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218342





------- Additional Comments From mgarski at post.pl  2007-02-16 14:41 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> So my take is, if this is the standard free font for Tibetan
> then we should probably name it fonts-tibetan, otherwise we can keep
> the current name.

When you look at description in spec file and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script you will see that using this fonts
you can write in Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi. AFAIK TMU and Jomolhari are the
only free TrueType OpenType Unicode fonts that's metter
(http://www.thdl.org/tools/fonts/tibfonts.php?l=uva10924125554021&m=set), so I
could assume they are standard fonts. Then my propose is to pack TMU and
Jomolhari together and name it fonts-tibetan-dzongkha(-ladakhi)?

(In reply to comment #8)
> One more question, I haven't tested the font(s) yet, do we have any support
> for OTF fonts yet in Fedora?  Do we need libotf or something for that?

Fedora should support OpenType out of box as it include FreeType. Pango supports
Tibetan (probably Dzongkha) since 1.8.0 release (* Add Tibetan module [G
Karunakar, Pema Geyleg]), in 1.11.0 shaper module was improved (* New improved
Tibetan shaper module. [Pema Geyleg]). I don't know what's the status of Qt.

Dzongkha's version of OO.org (ICU), GNOME and FF are available (some of them
upstream).

(In reply to comment #10)
> Also what is the difference between the TibetanMachineFont and
> TibetanMachineWebFont, btw?

Tibetan Machine Uni is a Unicode version of
TibetanMachineFont/TibetanMachineWebFont so this two are obsolete. As Tibetan is
only standardized in Unicode I don't know encoding is used by TMF and TMWF.

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